The universal variability of the stellar initial mass function probed by the TIMER survey
(2024)
Journal Article
Martín-Navarro, I., de Lorenzo-Cáceres, A., Gadotti, D. A., Méndez-Abreu, J., Falcón-Barroso, J., Sánchez-Blázquez, P., …Pérez, I. (2024). The universal variability of the stellar initial mass function probed by the TIMER survey. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 684, Article A110. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348060
The debate about the universality of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) revolves around two competing lines of evidence. While measurements in the Milky Way, an archetypal spiral galaxy, seem to support an invariant IMF, the observed properties...
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